"I lost my daughter to that terrible disease 10 years ago and I miss her," Ms O'Shea said.

Ms O'Shea lives in the same Athelstone house that she's lived in since arriving in Australia from England in 1974. She drives her own car and reads without glasses, and apart from some minor issues is in good health. And she is already thinking about when her next jump might be.

"Possibly I will jump next year and if I live long enough I'll jump at 105," she said.

Together with most of Ms O'Shea's five grandchildren and 11 great-grandchildren, Shelagh's husband Mike Fitzhenry watched on yesterday, proud of his mother-in-law's latest achievement.

On the ground — a successful jump and back in the record books. Picture: SA Skydiving / Bryce Sellick & Matt Teager

"I felt inspired by her - the attitude and courage and fearlessness is amazing," he said.

"If I walk up three stairs and then walk back down I get nervous. I would never jump out of a plane."

Mr Fitzhenry said his late wife was very much like Irene - independent and full of life.

"She was a chip off the old block," he said.

"She was good with languages and the first thing to go when she got motor neurone disease was her speech - it's terrible for someone who spoke so many languages."